Uncertain mail delivery destination due to faulty recipe
Hi, I made a tweak to my procmail recipes last night for the first time in years and, due to not paying attention not to mention being so out of practice, failed to include the '*' character on the condition line such that I ended up with: :0: ^From: .*DocuSign.* /home/mathew/Maildir/.SystemWide-ManualSpam/ Wind forwards 24 hours and I started wondering why I hadn't been receiving any email and looking at Procmail's log reveals that my dodgy recipe had been causing all mail to be delivered to the '^From:' folder as per the following log snippet: procmail: Skipped ".*DocuSign.*" From return@email.edmodo.com Fri Sep 17 16:00:52 2021 Subject: Please confirm your Edmodo account Folder: ^From: 26760 My question is this: Does anyone have any idea where my mail might've actually been delivered to? The special characters in the apparent folder is making me wonder if they might've just disappeared into the ether, but wouldn't Procmail have baulked at being asked to do that? Regards, Mathew
Mathew Newton wrote to procmail@lists.rwth-aachen.de [at 16:39 (+0100) on Friday, 17th September, 2021]:
procmail: Skipped ".*DocuSign.*" From return@email.edmodo.com Fri Sep 17 16:00:52 2021 Subject: Please confirm your Edmodo account Folder: ^From: 26760
My question is this: Does anyone have any idea where my mail might've actually been delivered to? The special characters in the apparent folder is making me wonder if they might've just disappeared into the ether, but wouldn't Procmail have baulked at being asked to do that?
Have you looked to see if /home/mathew/Maildir/^From:/ exists? Alan --
Hi Alan, On 17-09-2021 17:14, Alan Clifford wrote:
Have you looked to see if
/home/mathew/Maildir/^From:/
exists?
Yes, had a look for that. Taking a sledgehammer approach I've since grepped the whole disk for a relatively unique string I know was in one of the 'missing' emails but to no avail so I guess that's pretty conclusive. Oh well, a lesson learnt! Mathew
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